Blog: Twelve Fast Shooting Spree Facts

Hey, kids, here are 12 fast shooting spree facts that you can use to amaze and astound your friends. You’ll be the envy of everyone. Trust me.

1. You have to kill at least four people, not including yourself, in one single location for it to qualify as a “mass shooting.”
2. There have been at least 62 mass shootings in the last 30 years.
3. There have been seven mass shootings this year (2012).
4. More than 3/4 of the weapons used in a mass shooting over the last 30 years were bought legally.
5. No one knows why we call them “mass shootings,” rather than “mass killings,” or “mass slaughter,” but I have my ideas on this.
6. There are more than 129,817 licensed firearms dealers in the United States: 51,438 retail gun stores, 7,356 pawn shops, and 61,562 “collectors.” The balance are manufacturers and importers of firearms and destructive devices.
7. There are 20,366 Starbucks in the world.
8. There are 36,569 grocery stores in the United States and 14,098 McDonalds in the United States.
9. Half of the mass shootings over the last 30 years involved schools or workplaces.
10. Except in the cases of Columbine and Westside Middle School, the killings were done by one individual. The vast majority of the time the shooter is a white male.
11. Mattel has no plans to release “Drive-by Barbie” in time for Christmas.
12. You should wonder about the people who can legally import a “destructive device” into the United States. That’s equal to importing rice into India.